ADF MAGAZINE | By Ellen Boonstra One of the most original artists working today, Refik Anadol is redefining what it’s like to be a human experiencing life in the digital age of AI. Data is an overloaded word. From information in its rawest form to personal details...
ADF MAGAZINE | By Ellen Boonstra In the wild or sedate world of hospitality and tourism, it is not often that a new venture comes along to remind us of all the things that we love about travel, and how much we have missed it during...
ADF MAGAZINE | By Ellen Boonstra She made her first sale through the Saatchi online gallery and now boasts fans and collectors across the world; significant achievements for a farmhand from the boondocks of Thailand. Ta Thimkaeo Byrne is an escape artist. But she differs from Harry...
ADF MAGAZINE | By Ellen Boonstra Sometimes life and art collide in the most provocative of ways. When Juliane Bailey came up with the idea for The Jungle Emporium, a new artisan-friendly collection of lifestyle products, she was living in a jungle in Singapore. To see...
ADF MAGAZINE | By Ellen Boonstra Sustainability is THE buzzword of the new millennium. Its significance echoes through every aspect of development, from corporate governance to food and energy production, and the Sustainable Development Goals set down by the United Nations to create healthier and equitable...
ADF MAGAZINE | By Ellen Boonstra Many boys entertain delusions of grandeur about their futures. Either they want to be professional athletes or astronauts or rock stars. Not Shunsaku Miyagi: he wanted to be a gardener. For a boy from Kyoto, who grew up watching gardeners...
ADF MAGAZINE | By Ellen Boonstra In the realm of design, sometimes style is substance. As proof of this assertion look no further than the new Odunpazarı Modern Museum (OMM) in Turkey that was designed by the Japanese firm Kengo Kuma and Associates. Intended to invoke the...
ADF MAGAZINE | By Ellen Boonstra Studying fine arts may seem like a one-way ticket to either academia or poverty, but two of the masterminds behind the design-and-concept firm AvroKO have bucked that stereotype. Of the founders, two come from arts backgrounds while the other two...
ROBB REPORT THAILAND | By Ellen Boonstra Only a 90-minute flight from Bangkok, Phu Quoc – Vietnam’s largest island – sits pretty off its southern coast. Almost half of the island’s 600 sq km is given over to a national park, which ensures that this is...
ADF MAGAZINE | By Ellen Boonstra Multi-headed monsters, slithering snakes and tentacles, spooky-looking figures whose strings are being pulled by invisible puppeteers… Looking at the artworks of New York-based Chinese artist Hanyu Cui, you’d be forgiven to think you are looking at the musings of a...